How many copies has Button City sold?

indielist estimates Button City has sold between 7,038 and 16,422 units (median 11,730), derived from its 138 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Button City?

Button City was developed by Subliminal and published by Subliminal.

Who published Button City?

Button City was published by Subliminal, developed by Subliminal. See Subliminal's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Button City released?

Button City was released in 2021.

How many reviews does Button City have on Steam?

Button City has 138 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Button City worth playing?

Steam players rate Button City 92% positive across 138 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Button City

Aug 9, 2021 Adventure $19.99

Developer Subliminal Publisher Subliminal

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure-focused indie game Button City launched in 2021 from Subliminal, which also published it. On Steam it has 135 reviews with 92% positive, a very positive signal despite a modest review count, and its initial price was $19.99.

Button City is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Subliminal and published by Subliminal. On Steam it has gathered 138 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Subliminal with publisher Subliminal is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 7,000 to 16,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Button City can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

138

Positive

92%

Steam appid

1273750

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

7K to 16K

units (median: 12K)

≈ $80K to $188K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

7K median 16K

+ How is this calculated?

138 reviews × NB(85) = 11,730 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$20	0
positive_92%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Button City at roughly 7,000 to 16,000 copies, with a median around 12,000, derived from its 138 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $134K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

8 observed days · window low $19.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-23 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-23.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

Adventure CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Button City sold?: indielist estimates Button City has sold between 7,038 and 16,422 units (median 11,730), derived from its 138 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Button City?: Button City was developed by Subliminal and published by Subliminal.
Who published Button City?: Button City was published by Subliminal, developed by Subliminal. See Subliminal's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Button City released?: Button City was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Button City have on Steam?: Button City has 138 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Button City worth playing?: Steam players rate Button City 92% positive across 138 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Button City can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Subliminal's other releases and Subliminal's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Button City sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Button City page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.